Director: Unknown Writer(s): Brit Bennett (novel) Starring: Kerry Washington Synopsis: (from the novel) It is the last season of high school life for Nadia Turner, a rebellious, grief-stricken, seventeen-year-old beauty. Mourning her own mother’s recent suicide, she...

‘Every Industry Is So White,’ Not Just Hollywood Lamarco McClendon | Variety.com Kerry Washington and Aziz Ansari sat down for the fourth season of Variety’s and PBS’ Actors on Actors series and the two actors struggled to find why the TV industry has...

by Anthony D’Alessandro | Deadline Hollywood Donald Trump, Emmys, Shonda Rhimes’ acting and even Mr. Potato Head were some of the vast topics canvassed at ABC’s TGIT panel, aka the Shondaland session, this afternoon at TCA. After some of the blasé panels that...

on Getting Their Big Breaks Variety Staff | Variety.com The following story is part of Variety’s Actors on Actors Emmy Studio. For more videos, click here. Kerry Washington has been a frequent guest on Jimmy Kimmel’s latenight talkshow. But when the two met at...

Variety Staff | Variety.com HBO has lined up more notables for key roles in “Confirmation,” the telepic revisiting the drama of the Clarence Thomas-Anita Hill showdown in 1991. Greg Kinnear is set to play Joe Biden, who was a prominent voice in the Supreme Court...

by Anthony D’Alessandro | Deadline Hollywood Rick Famuyiwa is one of the most profitable voices in African American cinema at the box office with such titles as The Wood ($6M cost, $25M domestic) and Brown Sugar ($8M cost, $27.4M domestic). However, when he went...